Symposium Passion Projects 

As the senior Symposium class anticipates the arrival of this year’s Symposium author, Tayari Jones, the students are tasked with the creation of their first passion project. This challenges them with the task of designing a piece that both encapsulates a work of Ms. Jones’ that they choose, while using their own creative talents as […]

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KO welcomes Tayari Jones as next year’s Symposium author 

English teacher William Martino is excited to welcome New York Times best-selling author and novelist Tayari Jones as KO’s 2022-2023 Symposium author.  Students in next year’s first-semester Symposium class taught by Mr. Martino will uncover Jones’s work through hands-on classroom activities such as creative writing, analysis of her novels, and art projects; the semester will […]

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Tracy K. Smith Symposium

After an exciting semester with English teacher Mela Frye, Symposium students were thrilled that they were able to finally meet Symposium author Tracy K. Smith after her visit was postponed a month due to COVID-19 precautions. Smith visited KO on Feb. 7 and 8, 2022, the culmination of a six-month long deep dive into Smith’s […]

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Senior Symposium projects bring Tracy K. Smith to KO

Kingswood Oxford’s Senior Symposium program has been lauded as a facet of the school’s curriculum that inspires creativity, community, and collaboration. This year’s Senior Symposium class, taught by English teacher Mela Frye, has taken the program to new heights through its community-based Symposium projects. Students in the 2021-2022 Symposium class have been studying poet and […]

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